Tire-protector.



- A. T. LANEY.

TlRE PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1915.

Patented Feb. 13, 15217.

.witnessea ANDREW '1. LANEY, F CLINTON, MISSOURI.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, ANDREW T. LANEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'lire-Protectors, ol? which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

. 'It is an object of the invention to provide 'a covering for pneumatic, solid-rubber, and other resilient tires that will protect them from wear and puncture, and more particularly theinvention;contemplates the provision of, a protector that includes a pinrality of arcuate. metallic covering-sections so formed and arranged that they maybe easily laced to completely surround and cover t e eriphery of a tire and be as easily removed t erefrom when desired.

When read in connection-With the description herein, the details and formation of the article will be apparent from the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, wherein one embodiment of the invention is disclosed, forpurposes of illustration.

Like reerence-characters refer to corresponding parts in the views of the drawing, of which Figure 1 is a side view of the protector ap lied to a wheel-tire;

fig. 2 is a plan view of abutting ends of two sections and a coupling therefor, the

"parts being shown disconnected;

. Fig. 3' is 'a View, partly in elevation and partly in llHtII'JClJlICfl-l section, show ng a protcctor on a wheel-tire;

Fig. 4 is a, sectional view on a. pci'iphoi a-l line through the coupled end portions of two sections; and T Fig. 5 is a perspective viewlof an end pm.- tion of a section and a coupling.

1 Having more particular reference to the drawing, (3 designates arcuate segn'ients or sections, and 7 designates couplings, which latter are overlapped by meeting end 1103' tions of the sections and which hold the see tions together. The sections are-of a. sulli cient number to oXtend entirely around the periphery of atire when coupled together.

Forythe purpose of maintaining the sec tions together toform a complete protectgfi', each. section has near each end a. series of transversely-disposed slots or openings c and each coupling has two series of the same number of similarly-disposed books or Specification of Letters latent of the scciionw Patented Feb. 13, 1917.

Application filed September 24, 1915. Seri: 1 No. 52,517.

tongues 9 arranged to engage. intothe slots or opening; 8. The slots \or openings and hooks or to ngues are so relatively arranged that, when sections are coupled together, the ends of the sections will he in abutment and an uninterrupted wez'iring surface presented.

The sections and couplings are made of sheet meta, of suflicient thicknes'sand te- 11acity to withstand wear and to be proof against puncture by articles ordinarily encountered on a street or road that are apt to puncturr unprotected resilient tires. They ate portion of asection, so thatat' the places the sections overlap the couplings the pro .tector is of substantially-the same thickness as at other places, as seen in F i'gl, and raised plazes 'at. the joints tl'iereby are avoided.

'80 then is ofless thickness than the intermedi' When the protector is to be placed on a pneumatic tire, the sections preferably are assembled in'd connected around the tire when in 'ai lellatiul (.(H'Hllllflll. The hooks or I tongues S). which preferably are pointed to laeilital'rll soltion through the slotsor' openings 8, are passed through those openings llach series of hooks or tongues of a coupling extend away from the end and toward the other series thereof, so

'as to susta n the oppositelymxci'ted pull of the section: connected by the coupling, and

after insertion through the openings they may be harmuerod down, desired,'to'make tlivlu lie oso against and conform to the contour of the protmtor. After the sections are oouneoicd oua deflated tire. the tire is inflated. anl thereby caused to fill the concave inner portion 01 the protector and to pull the seztions taut on the couplings, -an .l thus the protector is hold tight on the tire and its pa n-evented mm displacement 1 tluacfrom. 'lheprotector may be removed i by a revere all of this operation.

I'laving-ihus described .''my inventiomwhat v I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A tire-protector comprising a plurality of arcuate sections s'h aped to conform to and to cover the tread and a portion of thensides 'of a tire, and couplings lapped by and joining the abutting portions of the sections, each section having near each end a serles of transversely-disposed opexnngs'and each l0 coupling having adjacent to each of its ends a series bf sin ilarl disposed hooks arranged to engage t rough said openings,

the hooks of each M series extendin away from the adjacent end of the coupllng and r in a direction opposite to pull of a section thereon, and both sections where lapping a coupling being of reduced thickness on' the inside.

Clinton, Missouri, July23rd, '1915. ANDREW T. LANEY. 

